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Why I am insane.
Nov. 27th, 2010 11:19 amI was looking at the animated movies meme. I am a failure as a nerd; I've only seen about 10% of this stuff. I haven't even seen all the classic Disney. Yet somehow, I have watched everything Ralph Bakshi ever made. This is how you know Mom raised us wrong.
I saw Unico and the Island of Magic, plus a few shorter Unico cartoons, when I was pretty tiny, and as Tezuka's stuff did for a lot of people, it permanently altered my idea of how stories ought to be told. I realized a couple of years ago that, when I read books set in the woods, despite the fact that I was kind of raised in woods, the setting I see is the one from Unico. When I first read A Wizard of Earthsea, the end of the world was Kuruku's end of the world. I suspect that I was psychologically primed to become obsessed with manga long before Yukito Kishiro took over my brain; after all, most manga artists were hit by the same cultural virus I was.
I saw Unico and the Island of Magic, plus a few shorter Unico cartoons, when I was pretty tiny, and as Tezuka's stuff did for a lot of people, it permanently altered my idea of how stories ought to be told. I realized a couple of years ago that, when I read books set in the woods, despite the fact that I was kind of raised in woods, the setting I see is the one from Unico. When I first read A Wizard of Earthsea, the end of the world was Kuruku's end of the world. I suspect that I was psychologically primed to become obsessed with manga long before Yukito Kishiro took over my brain; after all, most manga artists were hit by the same cultural virus I was.
